The article examines ways of improving energy efficiency and resource saving mining locomotive transport using energy storage. Defined energy, power and placement of the five types of energy storage: electrochemical batteries, superconducting inductive storage, inertial drives, superconductors, combo drives, which consists of electrochemical batteries and supercapacitors. The advantages of the use in the storage of lead-acid batteries compared with Nickel-iron. To determine the needs of the mining locomotive transport of Russia in supercondensators. It is established that the application of energy storage will reduce power consumption by 15–20% and reduce capital expenditures. Most of the decrease in power consumption is obtained in the traction electric supply system. Reduction of capital costs will be achieved by reducing the length of contact networks, number of substations and electric locomotives.